skate journal: silverthorne, breck, leadville with one heck of a solid crew (june 29, 2018)
Posted in Skate Journal on July 3rd, 2018 by corpo
Kevin, Joe, Eric and I were off to Silverthorne by 8:15am. It was awesome. We hit the park right away and things was good. We ended up having a blast. We started in our own ways, feeling out the park. It wasn’t very crowded. Eric and I did loops around the solo bowl. Kevin and Joe did some carves around to fly outs. Joe figured out how to carve with speed so he didn’t have to push. Then we mostly skated the steep bank for awhile. It’s hard to get speed for. Kevin took awhile to get kickflip to fakie. I took awhile to get bs kickflip. Joe did the ol’ front shove to fakie and ollie to front tail. Eric did his f/s sal flip, side rocks. Kevin did an ollie to blunt transfer into the kicker. I got stuck in a line for awhile and was kind of on my own. Meaning I’m not sure what others were doing. I tried ollie up the pool coping ledge, kickflip on flat, back 180 off the ledge, switch nose jib to forward on the ledge, then noseslide the big hubba. I got the line once, but the noseslide was terribly slow and I had to push it along. I tried it alone as Eric was kind enough to film it. That’s about when Dave and Ed showed up. I got the noseslide okay, still slow, but it felt really fun. Eric did rock to fakie on the corner pocket. Dave and Ed did some cool bert slides. Ed did a super good looking rock ‘n roll. Kevin and Joe were trying to front 50 the big hubba. Joe would get close and bail out. Kevin was taking some hard slams. Neither came off the end, but Joe did pull it into the bank which is pretty nuts too. Dave and Kevin did some crazy doubles. Dave had a good slam at one point trying a rock ‘n roll, but the doubles went pretty well and man, look how close they are! I’m not remembering a whole lot more to this. Oh yeah, Dave had some ride on front slashes on the pool coping ledge. Joe 50’d it into the bank. Kevin had done a bunch of ollies onto rocks, fakie front tails on the ledge, switch front board the flat bar.
After some lunch we went to Breck. I was dead tired and sore. As we arrived Dave was pole jamming into the park. Ed and I played in the snake run a little. We skated the quarterpipe at the top of the park for awhile. Kevin tore it up. Ed’s tricks were steezy. We played a game of SKATE that I got two letters on front shove. Man I hate that. I also didn’t do heelflip and Kevin took me out with nollie flip and switch flip. Then I carved the big bowl with Eric and Ed. I was scared to drop into the shallow. I got one carve where I barely scraped tile in the deep. It was fun. Eric was sore from climbing out with his bad knee. Ed may have only took two runs, but they were so casual and I think he might have carved tile frontside in the deep? Some scooter kid stood across from the bowl holding his scooter over the deep end. We told him not to drop it, but of course he did. A few minutes later when his mom asked us if we could get it for him I told her no. Ha, I’m a jerk. This other kid eventually got it. He was ripping. The Miller flip in the deep was nuts. Me and Ed chilled after this. He showed me a new stretch that really made my knee/hip feel better. Stoked. Kevin, Dave, Joe and the ripper kid did quads down the hubba. Dave did cool wallies over a rock.
After some driving and chilling at Safeway we ended up at the Leadville park feeling very exhausted and sore. But what do you know, we skated. I don’t remember much for myself other than a boneless over the rail which is really fun. Rob kinda got the shaft as we were all tired and ready to go right about the time he seemed to be getting warmed up. That is one boosty bean plant/boneless.
(setup 8.25 null dream machine deck, venture 5.2 awake lows, 1/16 riser, old 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers inside each axle, white venture bushings, vans kyle walker black/gold size 11.5, gamechanger insoles)